For the fifth successive Christmas, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an association of rubbish collectors, many of whom live in the streets. If you walk or drive around Brazil's larger cities you will be familiar with these "catadores," as they are known, filling plastic bags or pulling rickety wooden carts packed with rubbish, mainly paper and scrap metal.
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Frutificação Publica written by Elson Silva, PhD,
December 31, 2007
Free Fruits on Public Areas to Curb Spreading Obesity
Fruits are low in calories and highly nutritional already grown on public places at increasing ratios to face obesity trends. Tree climbing also can be a body exercise for kids harvesting fruits.
Fruits have around four times more water content than cookies and easily satisfy hunger taking less energy. Refrigerators full of fruits easily beat junkies.
In Brazil we are increasing fruit trees in the public areas changing the country to a large tropical orchard. Then, sidewalks, squares, parks, roadsides will be plenty of free fruits bearing appropriate food to fight spreading obesity. Free fruits are protected from the power of the economic system pursuing profitability.
Other countries are invited to join us on a fight against global obesity toward a Public Fructification. Brazil intends to become a developed country without common problems of a superpower.
We intend the rural area to conquer public areas making it full of fruits. http://revver.com/watch/225528 http://revver.com/watch/529604
Even carnivores can be convinced to eat more fruits why not humans? http://revver.com/watch/218695
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... written by bo,
December 31, 2007
Brazil intends to become a developed country without common problems of a superpower.
Being a "developed" country doesn't mean one is a "superpower" Elson. And Brazil and Brazilians cant only strive to have the reality of the citizens in today's only superpower. "Let them have fruit trees!" in the town squares, "but don't give them money!! Whatever you do!! We need cheap(slave) labor!!"
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Oh Really ! written by Senor Blanco,
January 01, 2008
And I guess these people are going to pay taxes on their income! The country is already a garbage can, with trash everywhere and so are the beaches s**ted up, parks overun with drug dealers.. The smart Brailians live in Miami, the rich live in Paris and the wealthy live in Bahia with lots of slave servants to deal with the trash, both from the household and the human kind as well! Why don't they collect the dog s**t from the streets and beaches and sell it as fertillzer for the fruit tree growers?
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... written by bo,
January 02, 2008
this new system of breaking the posts up into pages isn't working correctly. Sure you guys know this already.
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... written by João da Silva,
January 02, 2008
this new system of breaking the posts up into pages isn't working correctly. Sure you guys know this already.
Yes. But I don't think that there is any new system. You know some muck up always happens during long holidays in this site!
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Interesting to note that...... written by ch.c.,
January 03, 2008
Brazil with foreign exchange reserves totalling US$ 186 billion.....IS NOT WILLING TO INVEST US$ 1 - 10 MILLIONS....FOR RECYCLING AND HELPING 300'000 POOR CITIZENS !
TYPICAL STYLE OF.......BIN LULA AND HIS 4000 THIEVES.
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To Senor Blanco ! written by ch.c.,
January 03, 2008
Your "The country is already a garbage can, with trash everywhere and so are the beaches s**ted up, parks overun with drug dealers" is right on target !
You have well over 4000 kms of beaches....full of garbage !
Ohhhhh....but Bin Lula wishes to increase foreign tourism !!!!
But there are thousands, thousands and thousands kms of clean beaches....outside Brazil ! And so more secure and safe !
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... written by David Nendoza,
January 03, 2008
but, as society is starting to realize the importance of recycling, they are now beginning to gain a higher status.
Bit of an ironically Brazilian statement there, John! Fifty years after Carolina Maria de Jesus, people don't care for the catadoresout of social responsibility but because of rising status!
Curious too that you didn't comment on the psychological state or skin pigmentation of many of the catadores.
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Welcome to Los Angeles = City of 82,291 homeless, written by X,
January 03, 2008
Como se resolve o problema de mendigos na America. written by X,
January 03, 2008
Como o video indica meu amigo,simplesmente coloque uma lei municipal dizendo que e proibido dormir,deitar,sentar na calcada. Caso a pessoa faca isso sera multada ou ira para cadeia.
Los Angeles, my home town. They used to call them winos. They pretty much stayed around the downtown area where the rescue missions provided free meals. Pershing Square, what´s now called Koreatown, the library.
Then in the sixties the move came to drugs, LSD. And the numbers increased, and they spread to other areas. So now you have "homeless" in Long Beach, the Valley, Orange County.
There may be, out there, a few Homeless that are not either druggies or drunks, but I´ve never seen one.
But like the "homeless Kids" of Brazil´s cities, the vast majority of whom are not really without a home but prefer to live on the streets, most L.A. Homeless don´t want to be provided a place to live and a structured life. Put them into a home with no drugs or booze and only the simplest of rules and structure and they´ll be back on the streets before you know it, peeing on the trees, pooping in the alleys, pushing shopping carts they stole from Von´s, panhandling, puking, prevaricating, pimping, prostituting, and finally, packing it in.
O link acima explica melhor o problema de homeless em Los Angeles. O texto de certa forma mostra que o problema de mendicacia nos EUA tem origem da mesma fora que existe em outros paises.
O problema de homeless em Los Angeles nao se resume somente em sua totalidade por drogados.vagando pela rua
.Isso e um insulto a todas as familias que estao passado dificuldades no condado de Los Angeles.
Mesmo que fosse somente drogados nao deixa de ser um problema social do pais.
Outro erro na analise do problema e que todos pensam que a pessoa sempre foi drogada.
As vezes o uso de drogas e prostituicao e resultado da pobreza e vida de mendigos nas ruas. Um ciclo nocivo e destrutivo.
A razao que escrevo em portugues e para esclarecer a realidade da vida dos pobres no Eua para as pessoas que estaao no Brasil. O americano ja sabe mas por razoes pessoais ou de cultura prefere tampar o sol com a peneira e dirigir esse tipo de problemas como um problema em outros paises.Se voce ver o video vera que em alguns depoimentos muitas pessoas tem emprego. O problema e que o custo de vida e tao alto que o pobre que trabalha nao tem dinheiro para poder alugar um apartamento.
Eu recomendo ao senhor que escreveu o texto acima fazer uma visita a Los Angeles Mission e perguntar para quem trabalha la se o numero de pessoas que ficam para fora e familias nao tem aumentado tremedamente nos ultimos anos.
O video abaixo mostra o problema de homeless families
Outro detalhe importante.. Se a pessoa diz que mora em Los Angeles nao quer dizer muito. Existe muitas regioes dentro do condado de Los Angeles . Tem gente que mora em regioes melhores e em sua vida toda nunca visitaram a areas pobres da cidade.
We have 8000km of beach!!The way you make your comments, you demostrate your ignorance!!
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É o Seguinte written by Ric,
January 06, 2008
Quasi sempre que tem notÃcia sobre favelas, mendigos, ou miseria no Brasil, certas pessoas pulam logo para problemas sociais nos EEUU. "É Pior Nos EUA".
DuvÃdo que tem ninguem aqui que conhece o condado de Los Angeles como eu. De São Paulo, só de passagem, do Rio tambem. Mas eu pago impostos em Los Angeles, nasci em Long Beach, me criei em Cypress, estudei em Anaheim e Paramount, e na SF Valley. Estive em Los Angeles e Santa Barbara no mes de Novembro, o pessoal na Hertz LAX me conhecem todos. Conheco Boyle Heights, South Central, sim, Compton, ora bolas.
Não acredite em videos ou artigos nos journais ou revistas feitas por pessoas que vão de propósito para achar aquilo que já determinaram, apoia a sua posição polÃtica. Estrangeiros fazem a mesma coisa no Rio, em Salvador, em Fortaleza.
Uma vez uns caras americanos chegaram querendo um voo para constatar devastação florestal. Tinha um belo exemplo, para fotografar, duas horas daqui! 500 KM!
Mandei embora.
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... written by Eduardo C.,
January 06, 2008
And you are afraid to say your real nacionality.And you know why
Baseado na sua propria teoria o senhor acabou dando um tiro no proprio pe. Nao faz sentido questionar problemas socias brasileiros em revistas estrangeiras de pequena circulacao.. Como o senhor mesmo disse, o senhor mora no Brasil.
Quem mora em Los Angeles pagara impostos em los angeles e nao tera o minimo interresse em resolver o problema de pobreza no Brasil.Esse tipo de informacao so serve para ele ter assunto em festa de brasileiro. Ele ta mais preocupado com a hipoteca da casa ou de onde vai tirar dinheiro para comprar a proxima HD TV.
Infelizmente ,o autor com seu texto, mostra claramente ,sua tendencia politizada sobre o assunto. Sua posicao e so criticar destrutivamente e sem qualquer qualidade construtiva.
De maneira sublimal ele molda o assunto para satisfazer de maneira "logica" a sua mensagem propagandista.
Baseado na sua propria teoria o senhor acabou dando um tiro no proprio pe
Negativo e totalmente descordo.
Quem mora em Los Angeles pagara impostos em los angeles e nao tera o minimo interresse em resolver o problema de pobreza no Brasil.Esse tipo de informacao so serve para ele ter assunto em festa de brasileiro.
Tanto pelo pai como tambem pela mãe, o meu povo chegou nos EUA antes de 1750, e que eu saiba, todos na minha linhagem era ou Ingleses ou Escocêses. Não tenho passaporte Brasileiro.
For the fifth successive Christmas, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited an association of rubbish collectors, many of whom live in the streets. If you walk or drive around Brazil's larger cities you will be familiar with these "catadores," as they are known, filling plastic bags or pulling rickety wooden carts packed with rubbish, mainly paper and scrap metal. 
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Fruits are low in calories and highly nutritional already grown on public places at increasing ratios to face obesity trends. Tree climbing also can be a body exercise for kids harvesting fruits.
Fruits have around four times more water content than cookies and easily satisfy hunger taking less energy. Refrigerators full of fruits easily beat junkies.
In Brazil we are increasing fruit trees in the public areas changing the country to a large tropical orchard. Then, sidewalks, squares, parks, roadsides will be plenty of free fruits bearing appropriate food to fight spreading obesity. Free fruits are protected from the power of the economic system pursuing profitability.
Other countries are invited to join us on a fight against global obesity toward a Public Fructification. Brazil intends to become a developed country without common problems of a superpower.
We intend the rural area to conquer public areas making it full of fruits.
http://revver.com/watch/225528
http://revver.com/watch/529604
Even carnivores can be convinced to eat more fruits why not humans?
http://revver.com/watch/218695